Lucas and Kimberlee speak to Greg Clement of Mapleside Farms of Brunswick Ohio about it's past, current state, and exciting future plans. They learn about some of it's history, some of the thought processes behind recent changes, and what to expect in the near future for the beloved attraction.
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[00:00:00] Welcome everybody to a special edition of Brunswick Group Therapy. We're taking the podcast
[00:00:23] live in the studios of Bat TV and I'm here with my cohort Lucas. Hey everybody. And we are
[00:00:32] very pleased and very excited to have with us today Greg Clement from Mapleside Farms.
[00:00:37] Hello. And so we'll be getting to know him a little bit better and some of the things that he
[00:00:42] has planned, some big announcements and stuff like that. So exciting stuff for sure. Yeah tell
[00:00:47] us a little bit about Greg before we get into the really juicy stuff. How did you end up
[00:00:52] with that house over there and the beautiful acreage and stuff. Yeah so good question. We
[00:00:59] is so I've been going to Mapleside since I was a kid since I was like I remember three three four
[00:01:04] five years old. So I grew up in Brunswick because born in Brunswick, grew up in Brunswick. I went
[00:01:08] to school at St. Ambrose. Went to Brunswick High School, graduated from Brunswick. I commuted
[00:01:14] actually in college. I went to the University of Akron for a year. Then went to BW's while I lived
[00:01:19] in Brunswick. So technically I've never moved out of the city. So 49 years in the city of Brunswick.
[00:01:26] But Mapleside was always that place, that magical place that was like Cedar Point right. You'd go
[00:01:31] to Mapleside, the Johnny Eppelsey Festival as a kid, you know you'd go to Cedar Point. Same
[00:01:35] difference right? Both like an experience this thing with your family, this memory. So when I
[00:01:43] graduated from BW, I had a degree in business and marketing and I got a job as a financial planner
[00:01:50] and so I did that for seven or eight years. Like in my 20s, I did financial planning. I lived in
[00:01:54] Brunswick, got married 25 years ago. We just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary this year.
[00:02:01] So 25 years ago we have three kids, three boys, 23 24 21 and 15. So our youngest is a sophomore
[00:02:09] in high school, Brunswick High School but you know I did financial planning my 20s and then
[00:02:14] so I sort of realized after like I think as a financial planner you get a unique snapshot into
[00:02:21] what makes people tick. Like what are they excited about? Like trying to, you know retire or
[00:02:26] financial freedom or right we all have this vision in our head of the free life. Like that time
[00:02:31] in the future when we have enough money to do what we want to do, when we want to do it with who
[00:02:35] we want to do it with. So it's pretty cool. I had an appointment one day with a doctor who made
[00:02:42] a ton of money but had no disposable income and then I had on the same day I met with a business owner
[00:02:47] in North Railton. This guy who had a machine shop who made less than 100 grand a year so not a huge
[00:02:54] income but he had like $10 million in assets like in mostly in real estate. So he was just,
[00:03:01] he took his disposable income and he was smart with it. He bought a small and compartment building
[00:03:07] complex and then just sort of grew his real estate portfolio. So that sort of got me excited.
[00:03:14] My family has a little bit of a construction background so I grew up building houses like you'll see
[00:03:19] the climate construction bands around the city and stuff. That's my brother who's got that company
[00:03:23] so he's a little bit older than I am when I was in high school. I worked for them and my dad but
[00:03:28] then I got into real estate as an investor and we were doing a lot of work when Cleveland was like
[00:03:36] the epicenter of the foreclosure crisis going back like 2005, 6, 7, 8. We did a lot of real estate
[00:03:43] investing where we would negotiate short sales with people who were in foreclosure but owed sort of
[00:03:50] what their property was worth. So we would actually go to the bank and we would sort of help people
[00:03:55] out of that foreclosure situation by negotiating with the bank, buying the house and then fixing
[00:04:00] it up and reselling it. So we used our like renovation experience background and we did a lot
[00:04:05] of real estate deals in Northeast Ohio. Then we developed a software program to run our business
[00:04:15] and that sort of became our main business because we would show, we'd go to seminars across the
[00:04:20] country I'd leave Bronzig or leave Cleveland and you'd fly to Vegas or see a Diego to try to
[00:04:25] learn a new technique or workshop or whatever and we'd show people like our software that we
[00:04:29] developed for our business and we're like man I need that for my business so it didn't take us
[00:04:35] too long to figure out like that's a bigger opportunity. So yeah exactly. So we started real flow
[00:04:42] which is the name of the company, it's pretty cool we can talk maybe in a little bit we just moved
[00:04:46] it to Bronzig which is cool from Parma Heights, we were headquartered in Cleveland for the past 18
[00:04:51] years but just moved it to Bronzig the past year. Then with real flow we do a lot of data and stuff
[00:04:58] and then we realize that Mapleside like was in foreclosure back then in 2009 then they stopped it
[00:05:06] and then they started back up in 2010 so we bought the farm before like a week before I went to auction
[00:05:14] so I think, so if I remember right it was December 16th it was set for auction Medina County
[00:05:19] Sheriff's Hill 2010 we bought it on December 9th and then we worked with the Isons it was our
[00:05:25] intent never to develop it you know we heard the rumor that it was going to be developed and
[00:05:31] right in hindsight there were two big developers who were going to show up at the auction and buy
[00:05:34] the property. And the City of Bronzig had already approved something like 220 houses so a few years
[00:05:41] earlier. So the City of Bronzig had a site plan for like a couple hundred houses in the orchard
[00:05:46] and so we feel blessed that we were able to you know acquire the property and put sort of the
[00:05:53] conservationist hat on and just keep it and it was our intention to you know like the Isons had
[00:05:58] owned it for a hundred years we're like hey I wonder if we could own this thing for a hundred years
[00:06:01] I wonder if we could pass it on the kids and kids and kids. So that sort of gets you up to speed a little
[00:06:05] so some of the big changes that you've made since you've purchased the property um we know about the
[00:06:11] slides and stuff like that but then you've got um go ahead and tell us about the barn and the
[00:06:16] waterfall and all the other things. So when yeah so when we bought the farm it came with the
[00:06:22] restaurant I don't know if you guys right I'm sure you've turned it for restaurant right it was the
[00:06:26] apple farm restaurant yeah. So apple farm farm restaurant I had the apple house but they had the
[00:06:32] bakery and so it came with restaurants so we were excited and we're not restaurant people per say
[00:06:39] and I think like like if you're going to own a restaurant straight up that's got to be your passion
[00:06:43] that has to be like what what you were born to do or or you got to be extremely like like motivated
[00:06:49] and interested in that business because it can take over your life I mean you can easily work
[00:06:53] 70-80 hours a week in a restaurant and so what happened with us is when we took over the farm
[00:06:58] we loved everything about the farm but there were like six businesses operating there was ice cream
[00:07:04] shop there was the apple house there was the bakery there was the restaurant there was the wedding
[00:07:09] bit business there was the concerts that they were doing outside there was the festival so there were
[00:07:15] like seven different businesses that you sort of had to get your head around and even though the
[00:07:19] restaurant did did well like revenue wise we still lost money every month in the restaurant except for
[00:07:27] September October it sounds crazy but that first year that we own it you know we shut it down for six
[00:07:33] months open it back up in June of 2011 opened up the whole farm that farm had this big grand opening
[00:07:39] celebration and it was exciting as heck for sure but man that restaurant we could never figure out
[00:07:45] the key that looked a formula to making money in the restaurant so we ran it for two years
[00:07:50] we actually had a friend of ours who is a restaurant tour who's got like five or six restaurants in
[00:07:55] Cleveland Scott Kuhn so the Dripthwood restaurant group he gave it to go for two years
[00:08:02] and it was again it was just maple side I think people are conditioned to come to maple side for an
[00:08:07] event for something happening they weren't necessarily conditioned to come for lunch on a Wednesday
[00:08:14] right and so that's where we suffered like that lunch business and then weekday business
[00:08:18] the weekends were busy yeah activity place time yeah exactly so so so so we made a decision in 2014
[00:08:27] so after four years of running the farm pretty much as is that that we're going to quit swimming
[00:08:33] upstream we're going to build the barn so people loved the beauty of the farm like maple
[00:08:39] sides a beautiful place it's the highest point one of the highest points in the county you have the
[00:08:43] orchard you get the sunset do west you've got the valley I mean you have it's just this authentically
[00:08:49] beautiful place matter fact 2011 voted America's most beautiful farm there was this big
[00:08:55] nation-wide contest and we entered it ten farms and and we were lucky enough to win
[00:09:01] so which was awesome and yeah exactly there was a horse horse farming Kentucky a winery in
[00:09:08] California there was an orange grove in Florida all farms all over the country and we were in there
[00:09:15] for the apple orchard in Ohio basically right and we ended up winning it so that was cool but I
[00:09:22] think like when we built the barn we so we decided to take the lodge take the restaurant convert it
[00:09:28] to the lodge and do weddings and events and we that that that's worked incredibly well the past
[00:09:33] six or eight years that stabilizes the property if you will I think from like an entrepreneurial
[00:09:39] perspective it's easy for everyone because I think everyone has an opinion on maple side like
[00:09:44] like what it used to be in the past and and it should be like that in the future and we want to keep
[00:09:49] as much of the authenticity of the place intact for sure but also you also need to pay the property
[00:09:54] taxes and you need to pay the mortgage and you need to pay your team and so it's a very expensive
[00:10:00] property to run and maintain because almost 150 acres 146 acres in the middle of the city so
[00:10:08] yeah essentially we had to convert it to that event venue and we've ran it that way for six to eight
[00:10:14] years and but we've always had this sort of vision of like like the highest and best use of the
[00:10:21] properties not necessarily see houses in the orchard it's it's right it's like what kind of
[00:10:26] business could we develop year round where like our complimentary like the festivals and the concerts
[00:10:32] could be like could be enhancements so what could we put in there we we've had some people take
[00:10:38] stabs at the bakery um we ran the apple houses a farm market for a while for years um again it's
[00:10:45] just people are more conditioned to go to gin eagle to shop for stuff that they need not necessarily
[00:10:50] come to maple cider by their produce anymore um so times have definitely changed
[00:10:56] and about two or three years ago two and a half years ago actually got this idea for a winery
[00:11:01] because because we did Vino the way have you guys ever done the wine tasting?
[00:11:05] I'm not but tickets are always sold out you can yeah you have to but but pop me a message even if
[00:11:11] we're sold out pop me a message you heard that yeah yeah yeah i'd love you guys to check that out
[00:11:17] but but but Vino the way sells out so we're like you know what when you give people that like
[00:11:23] that experience i think we're like this experiential generation now um we want those
[00:11:29] cool things that we can do with people we love so this idea for a winery was like let's start
[00:11:34] testing the soil okay and this is pretty crazy what so what am I about to tell you this yeah
[00:11:40] this was crazy so when we bought the farm i wondered why maple sides apples were so huge
[00:11:47] and the isons would tell me david bill ison were like it's the soil so right the clay loam
[00:11:52] soil is just and that's like a sandy like like sedimentary mix like where the clay is is right
[00:12:01] just perfect for growing fruit especially okay so we started to test the soil samples a few years ago
[00:12:07] we knew obviously for generations apples are going to grow amazing um we started tested for grapes
[00:12:12] and other types of fruit and it's like tests off the charts and then when we started to do research
[00:12:18] for like the best wineries in like in in the u.s. in north america guess where where one of the top
[00:12:26] rated wineries in the u.s. is just a question what do you think Geneva i was going to say
[00:12:33] Geneva yeah because we're talking about a ton of wineries but it's actually kashakden wow kashakden
[00:12:39] ohio so there's this this vineyard and winery in kashakden which is like a couple hours away it's
[00:12:44] called heritage vineyard and um there's so kashak so kashakden is about the same size of brunswick
[00:12:52] but there's nine wineries in kashakden wow really because of the soil the the soil is almost identical
[00:12:59] guitars um the height above sea level is right a little bit over a thousand feet above sea level
[00:13:06] brunswick maple sides like 11 or 1200 feet and then the seasons so you start doing the research like
[00:13:12] we've been doing the past couple years and you start realizing that ohio wines a lot of people
[00:13:16] associate wines you know in ohio is only like uh ice wines like sweet wines yeah actually
[00:13:23] completely untrue like this this this vineyard and kashakden so not too far away they grow multiple
[00:13:30] varieties of wines reds and whites dries and and um you know like ice wines that sweet wines
[00:13:39] and they have one or two of like the top rated wines in the country like that scores like a 99
[00:13:47] on this wine scoring system so yeah I think you just start to get excited about the potential of what
[00:13:54] we could create there so it was an easy decision to sort of want to do do that and and I
[00:13:59] mentioned we bought that building uh right at the north end of our property moved our companies from
[00:14:05] from from from parma heights into the building this past year I was actually um uh you know
[00:14:11] so a sunday a package was delivered a few months ago and i'm there in james james justice was
[00:14:17] was was there two sort of on our properties getting his property surveyed I didn't even know he bought
[00:14:22] the property next to us but he introduces himself I've known architectural justice they do look
[00:14:28] incredible work work for sure but he was there introduced himself and he said he just bought the
[00:14:33] property and he said he's gonna put a winery in and it was like serendipitous because i'm like are
[00:14:37] you serious like we've been thinking about this for two years we're actually opening up our winery
[00:14:42] like in the summer of 2024 so next year he couldn't believe it I couldn't believe it
[00:14:47] so yeah I just think it's a pretty cool thing like that north end of brunswick that that brunswick
[00:14:52] accord or like we don't view it as a competitive situation or I think what he's doing is completely
[00:14:57] completely independent yeah it sounds like they're gonna compliment each other because
[00:15:00] yeah i mean it's you're gonna have different things and i want you to know that Lucas called it
[00:15:06] about pro-road tell them about like about six to nine months ago i said 2024 is going to be the um
[00:15:13] the year that pro-road really rebuilds itself you know we we did the street now the business is
[00:15:18] along that road are gonna be okay yeah 42 coming in down at the other end and then you know
[00:15:23] you guys making changes and stuff like that yeah that's crazy so that's good prediction you were
[00:15:28] able to save maple side as an attraction we can still drive down 71 you got to sign this as a
[00:15:34] tracking maple side um we're gonna fit all these all these uh great graces yeah so um so that's
[00:15:43] a great question when we knew we were going to make the decision to move forward with the winery we
[00:15:48] started to look at other like farms around northeast Ohio and it was this crazy moment again a year
[00:15:54] ago we took over caros so caros is that property caros events center and i think
[00:16:01] you mentioned you like you know that property well yeah yeah very well it used to be a campground
[00:16:06] and i literally grew up there we lived in middleburg heights and my parents would commute to work
[00:16:14] and then we would stay out there all summer long and yeah so we had several campers out there
[00:16:19] and we were out there for the uh Easter the tornado i think goes back in the 70s and stuff like that
[00:16:25] not our camper actually was one of the ones that went over the hill oh my gosh and um we took my mom
[00:16:31] back probably about five years ago before she passed and just you know just had some good memories
[00:16:37] there and stuff like that so yeah um so you guys purchased that yeah so so so caros dorthian angelo
[00:16:46] like had passed away they left the property to Jeff their son and then he continued running it as
[00:16:52] an event venue essentially for parties and weddings um and then he made the decision to sell it
[00:16:57] probably i don't know call it two years ago um i want to say there was talk of trees homes or a
[00:17:04] couple big big developers putting you know putting as many houses as they could fit in there um
[00:17:10] and caros so when we bought it i mean it was 124 acres so it's a big
[00:17:15] the piece of property and and it's not in brunt brunswick technically it's a first property in
[00:17:19] Medina township okay um but it's right like our property line is right in the border
[00:17:25] so our vision for caros is to do some type of development to keep the event venue going
[00:17:31] to renovate that but but also to add the vineyard to add a lot of grapes and use it
[00:17:37] agriculturally to sort of feed the winery at mapleside if that makes sense so now have two
[00:17:42] sorts sort of like complimentary properties both will be available for events and weddings
[00:17:49] and things like that but as far as the winery like the public you know place that you could go to
[00:17:54] for you know it's going to be an eatery too it's not just going to be wine and beer it's going to be
[00:17:59] that winery that that eatery concept i'm so i'm sure you've heard of javasque or michael angelo's
[00:18:06] like you've been to either one one of those i think they do an incredible job with
[00:18:10] with that wine experience but also people want to eat right you want to go somewhere for dinner and
[00:18:15] you want to eat dinner with your wine and you might stay after and change your wine selections
[00:18:19] or whatever but um yeah we're excited about bringing this incredible new experience to brunswick
[00:18:25] and and uh you know that includes on the 18th so next week we're in front of brunswick planning
[00:18:30] commission and so i think the city of brunswick i like we keep our finger on the pulse of everything
[00:18:36] that's happening too but we're focused on our businesses for sure i think is an entrepreneur
[00:18:40] you got to be focused on what you're doing um but we know what's going on in the community for sure
[00:18:45] i think the city of brunswick sometimes it gets this yeah i don't even want to call it a bad
[00:18:50] rapid like anti-development or anti um no progress hard to work with yeah i think the city is
[00:18:57] very easy to work with it's just it's a city any city that you work in because i have experience
[00:19:02] in real estate and help coaching people all over the country i'm like you know developing projects
[00:19:08] big bigger small the city has you know has a box of rules you rules that you have to follow and
[00:19:13] it's sort of for the benefit to to to make sure that things progress the right way that everyone
[00:19:19] will continue to love living in the city um so i think brunswick spend great to work with um and
[00:19:25] and and so one of the first first things that we're doing because we're doing the winery in two phases
[00:19:30] so the first phase is if you can imagine like standing on the deck of the lodge or the back parking lot
[00:19:38] we call it the back parking lot so that's where you'd pull in to watch a sunset right so so that
[00:19:43] that part of the farm has always been like when i've stood on the deck of the lodge a pie
[00:19:48] you overlook the orchard but you have cars in front of you so i talked to the icens about this when
[00:19:53] when they put the roadside fruit stand up in like the thirties that was where the ice cream shop is
[00:19:59] right now okay so they put it as close to pro road as possible okay that was the original road
[00:20:05] and the roadside fruit and a first stand and then you can imagine in the forties fifties and sixties
[00:20:09] they kept adding on like they added the bakery in the gift shop they built the barn behind it we
[00:20:15] called the warehouse um you know they they added the apple farm farm restaurant i think 1984
[00:20:21] but they just kept going down pro road if like if you could like if you could wipe everything away
[00:20:26] from the apple side and be like okay how are we gonna build the perfect setup where are we
[00:20:30] gonna put the buildings in the parking you definitely put all the parking up front and you would
[00:20:34] put the buildings sort of where the parking is in the back so you had that view so so so
[00:20:40] votes or nothing was you know interfering with the beautiful view in the side sides so what our
[00:20:45] intention is is to do land we so landscaping some major landscaping and remove a lot of the parking
[00:20:51] spaces in the back and call that the grove so our vision for that is the grove and that would be
[00:20:57] so that's a few acres when you plan a ton of grapes there but also um make cool like nooks and seed
[00:21:04] seed right like seed the seeding area is like with stones and rocks and like sort of reclaim that
[00:21:10] parking back to its natural state so so that's like phase one yeah we've done more parking
[00:21:18] exactly yeah you'll be good that way yeah and so what is the um actual like what will be over
[00:21:25] at the other property so so caros or yeah okay so that has an event venue space still correct
[00:21:32] so we're renovating that so we're improving that um and and then we're gonna you use it
[00:21:39] get for a lot of agriculture there's a few houses on that property already um and we're thinking
[00:21:45] I guess strategically like like uh you know it would be great to have enough money to buy every
[00:21:50] big piece of land in Ohio and not ever do anything with it because you can just sit on it but
[00:21:54] but I think when you look at it as a business like that has property taxes that has expenses that's
[00:21:59] kind of payroll so so so I do think a portion of that is gonna have to be developed creatively
[00:22:05] like there's a lot of frontage on parole road um so so we're still because that's a newer property
[00:22:10] to us so we're still putting those ideas together yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah I don't think so we
[00:22:16] we have our hands full this year for sure okay okay with phase one of the winery because phase two
[00:22:22] is when we're going to start building like little buildings and barns on the property like which
[00:22:28] will be like we have this vision for what we call the porch okay so you know where the slide is
[00:22:32] you mentioned the slide yeah yeah so imagine like right a little bit east of the slide okay so
[00:22:37] right where the back corner of the parking lot is this gorgeous barn with them like an open courtyard
[00:22:44] area out to the grove but there's big wrap around deck overlooking the concerts the orchard the sunset
[00:22:51] and that our vision is to call that the porch have it have it be like that back porch feeling
[00:22:57] for the summer in the fall so so have the lodge is the main winery but then we'll have some different
[00:23:02] things you could like let go to you could meet somebody at the porch you could meet somebody at the
[00:23:06] lodge you can meet somebody in the apple house like but the bakery we're gonna reinvent the bakery again
[00:23:13] so yeah we're excited about it for sure that is yeah a lot yeah that is amazing yeah sounds like
[00:23:19] a great vision for the future of maple side yeah yeah yeah and again I think it's like how do we keep
[00:23:25] how do we conserve this property like like what is its highest and best use and in real estate oftentimes
[00:23:30] when appraisers or agents brokers look at highest and best use it's like how do we develop how do
[00:23:35] we add more homes or get more density in our our vision is like high-stabest use we think is
[00:23:43] hopefully keep it keep it as a farm for the next hundred years like like we really want to
[00:23:48] you know run businesses there that that match the property type and no like trust me everybody's
[00:23:54] got an idea for like what should go at maple side like you think we've heard a hundred you
[00:24:01] know ideas a lot of them are good ideas if you weren't doing this thing like you know miniature golf
[00:24:06] course would be cool but you know if you're gonna do a wedding do you like those don't match up
[00:24:11] yeah right got all I think you gotta yeah exactly it's gotta be there's gotta be a strategy to it so
[00:24:16] we do need that though yeah I know you probably do you know you got that other property now you
[00:24:20] could put you know in the front you said pro road you know yeah but but I agree with you like
[00:24:27] pro road is is you know I don't even want to say making a comeback I think it's gonna establish
[00:24:31] itself as like a main quarter or even like it's never probably going to be as commercialized as
[00:24:37] through a three because you have the highway but what connects right Medina to Strongzo I mean
[00:24:42] it's it's you know Hinckley to Valley City is less populated than like right so I mean I think
[00:24:48] it's super important to do that right for sure well and I think I speak for everybody we have
[00:24:53] almost 30,000 people on the page now so we're just happy it's not dollar general or yeah
[00:24:59] parts yeah not our pizza shop not that we may we may serve some flat bread pizzas at the YS
[00:25:05] so you know what about a fire oven you know one of those pizza we have we have three so
[00:25:11] we bought the property it came that the license had three blodget ovens old school blodget pizza
[00:25:17] ovens and we've been offered like people will walk in there that no ovens no pizza in the
[00:25:22] look at it right and they've made cash offers like on the spot and we're not currently using them
[00:25:28] but we plan on integrating that into the wine I guess these ovens are incredible for right for
[00:25:34] pizza for flat bread stuff like that blodgets right yeah pretty cool anything else that you
[00:25:41] want to we're going to wrap it up anything else that you want to leave us with you just mention
[00:25:44] that you have some other businesses and you heard them to bronze week yeah yeah I think uh
[00:25:49] yeah so we move so so my software company our technology company is called real flow
[00:25:54] and and I started that company in 2006 so 18 years ago which I can't believe it's that long but
[00:26:00] we're basically real estate investing software and data so we have a spinoff of real flow called
[00:26:07] lead lead flow so leadflow.com and realflow.com but both technology companies we've moved those from
[00:26:14] like the cleat but the Cleveland area to bronze week we bought the building that so as a church
[00:26:21] right next to the hot dog place so right at the north end of the farm and actually the back
[00:26:25] of the building sort of connects to pumpkin trail which is part of our farm which is how you get
[00:26:31] down into the north orchard and stuff so um yeah we have a nonprofit remarkable youth that we just
[00:26:36] set up last year which like it's my belief so I grew up with this speech impediment
[00:26:41] so so sorry this operation is a kid I had a hernia now went in the hospital and they didn't give
[00:26:47] me enough anesthesia so I woke up before as they're like wheeling me out of the operating room so it
[00:26:52] was a pretty traumatic event like five years old and my mom wasn't there my mom like said I'll be
[00:26:56] here when you wake up type thing and in the guy like the nurse the male nurse was so surprised that
[00:27:01] I woke up this five year old kid he just pushed me in the hallway and he left me there and I don't
[00:27:05] know if I was there for an hour or whatever but I tried to yell and I couldn't yell so like my
[00:27:08] speech my mom says that's when you've got the stutter so as a kid I had this terrible stutter like
[00:27:14] St. Ambrose and all throughout high school um but I think it's unique I think it's like if I could
[00:27:20] go back in time and remove it I wouldn't do it because I think it gave me that ability just to
[00:27:24] overcome fear every day of my life because when you can't talk right that's like a disability and
[00:27:30] you're certain to just right you learn to just keep getting up you get knocked on you keep
[00:27:34] getting up over and over and over again so um one of the cool things with remarkable youth is
[00:27:40] that that our goal is to increase the confidence in children and young adults so so increase the
[00:27:45] confidence and help them do remarkable things things so we're working on all this so we're
[00:27:50] kind of some technology some mobile apps that help kids find their purpose to find their
[00:27:56] unique abilities like like you know there's this wonderful concept of the Japanese have called
[00:28:02] Ikigai so it is the crossroads of what you're good at what you enjoy doing and what the world needs
[00:28:10] and they say the center of that is like purpose and so like helping young kids I think a lot of
[00:28:15] young kids I did struggle with you know when you're in high school like what do you like what do
[00:28:19] you want to do I wasn't good enough to play in the NBA I wasn't you know so you have you have
[00:28:24] like directionally you might know you want to be this way but but you're afraid to take that
[00:28:29] step and start walking so I think if we can help bring some more clarity to kids like like children
[00:28:34] and you know grade school junior high in high school we can really right and increase their
[00:28:40] confidence by giving them direction we can really help them do remarkable things so we're so we're
[00:28:46] extremely extremely excited about remarkable youth we did that Joey Chess that thing this
[00:28:51] yeah for this summer and we basically took all the proceeds from that day and put it into the
[00:28:59] foundation and yeah so a bunch of cool stuff I know we have a bunch of cool charities like H2O and
[00:29:03] Bronzwick and you know what Jim and Eric do do there and their whole team but yeah we're super
[00:29:09] excited about remarks sounds a major yeah yeah we'll have to get looking at that a little bit more
[00:29:14] and let everybody know what that's all yeah yeah absolutely we'd love to for sure I think that's
[00:29:19] about it right I appreciate I appreciate coming back to yeah I appreciate how to
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